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Curing Father
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by John Francis Dillon
Cast: Ray Berger (Rae Berger) [John Grouch], Nan Christy [Nellie Grouch, John’s daughter], John Sheehan [Bob Bodine, Nellie’s sweetheart], Robert Burns (Bobby Burns)
American Film Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Beauty]. / Released 9 October 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? John, Nellie’s father, suffers with dyspepsia. Nellie suffers with heart trouble, Bob being the cause. Bob proposes, is accepted, and then asks John. Suffering an attack, John refuses. Nellie tells Bob that it is only her father’s dyspepsia that makes him so irritable, and if they could cure him it would be O.K. Bob has read an article saying that most dyspepsia was only imagination and that if the patient can be put to work and starved until really hungry, a cure could be effected. Disguised as a doctor, Bob calls on father. He held out so much hope for recovery that John, in a moment of joy at the prospect of a cure, promises Nellie that the first day he eats a square meal she can marry Bob. Still disguised as the doctor, Bob tells John that he must go to his sanitarium in the country for a time. John decides to go. Bob hatches up a plot with a friend to furnish his car and go as chauffeur. About five miles from the sanitarium they have a pre-arranged break-down. They all load up and start to walk. John nearly dies from fatigue, and rages when he finds the sanitarium is but a small cottage far out in the country. John is made a prisoner and fed on bread and water, while the others indulge in feasts. A great turkey dinner is prepared and they all sit down to eat. John smells the delicious odor up in his attic room. A lunatic at large arrives and frightens the diners away. He then sits down to eat. In desperation John breaks out and comes down. At first he is afraid of the lunatic, but finding him a very congenial person, John sits down and eats a hearty meal. Nellie, Bob and the chauffeur return with the asylum guards and catch John at a hearty meal. Explanations occur and John, removing his disguise, insists on John fulfilling his promise.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 November 2022.
References: Tarbox-Lost p. 237 : Website-IMDb.
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